Re: About changing from old GKS to NCAR-GKS

Dear Fuyuko Ohdan,

Our GKS package meets the requirements of the GKS level 0A standard that was documented in 1985.

You can see the documentation of our GKS package at:

http://www.ncarg.ucar.edu/gks/contents.html

I do not know what NOVA*GKS is, but if it follows the level 0A standard, then, yes, it shouldn't be too much trouble to replace it with our package.

We actually reference NOVA Graphics International in Appendix E of our GKS documentation, so that's a good sign.

I googled "GK-2000" and "GK 2000 GKS" but didn't come up with any useful hits.

The conceivable problem that you could run into is if your GKS requires a "higher" level than level 0A.

Other than that, the GKS package should compile just fine on a Linux, Mac, or Cygwin/X Windows system.

You can see some actual code of our GKS Fortran and C examples at:

http://www.ncarg.ucar.edu/examples.html#GKSExamples

--Mary

On Oct 9, 2013, at 2:35 AM, Fuyuko Ohdan <fuohdan@toyo-rubber.co.jp> wrote:

> To NCARG-TALK
>
> Hello, I am Fuyuko Ohdan, posting from Japan.
>
> My office has some programs which are written in UNIX / Motif / GKS (language: C and Fortran).
> And now, we have to consider to change the machine from UNIX to Linux in the future, maybe in next 5 years.
>
> The GKS which we are using is no longer supported, and will not work on a new Linux machine.
> So I am looking for a new GKS package which works both UNIX and Linux.
>
> Now I found your site.
> I read “User's Guide for NCAR GKS-0A Graphics / Appendix B. NCAR GKS-0A Subroutine Subset” roughly.
> Almost subroutine names are the same as our GKS routines.
> So I expect that we can change the GKS package without troublesome work.
>
> Current our UNIX is Solaris 10.
> The first GKS we had got was GK-2000 from USA (about 20 years ago). And later, we changed it to NOVA*GKS(Japan).
> We could change from GK-2000 to NOVA*GKS easily because subroutine names were the same, we were required minimal customize at that time.
>
> I have some questions.
> • Do you think it’s easy to change the old GKS package to NCAR GKS?
> • What is conceivable problems?
>
> I expect it is easy to change from old GKS to NCAR-GKS.
>
> Yours truly,
>
>
> Fuyuko Ohdan
> Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. Ltd.
>
>
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